Mind Quotes
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.Antonin Scalia
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.William Ellery Channing
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
Whoops is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five.Richard Stubbs, Comedian, Book - " Still Life".
Free your mind, and the rest will follow. Be colorblind, don? t be so shallow.En Vogue, Free Your Mind
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.Anonymous
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.The Dhammapada
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.Alfred North Whitehead
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F Scott
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.Auguste Rodin
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.Gretel Ehrlich
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.Tibetan Doctrine
In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.Robert F. Goheen
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.General Omar Bradley
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.John Burroughs
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.Oscar Wilde
He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund - Raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.William Hamilton
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.Rene Descartes
Keep your conscious mind focused on what you want, and your subconscious mind will unerringly guide you to it.Unknown
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.John Martin Fische
Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.Author Unknown
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.Christopher Morley
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.Benjamin Disraeli
Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.Whittaker Chambers, from Witness (1952)
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.Denis Watley
